Read 1930s criticism of
douche products Zonite
and Lysol. See Lysol information in old newspapers and Lysol ads from 1948 and 1934.
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Lehn & Fink New
Improved [menstrual,
contraceptive?] Tampon
with hydroxyquinoline
(1930s-1940s? Lehn & Fink Products
Corporation [Lysol],
U.S.A.)
Procter & Gamble kindly
donated the box and contents as
part of a gift of scores of
menstrual products.
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Below:
When I received the box
it contained two
complete applicator
tampons (right
below) and three
complete ones with no
applicator
(second picture), each
wrapped in cellophane
(by hand?), plus a
single tube. Someone,
probably from Procter
& Gamble, had
investigated the 'pons
just as most companies
do their competitors and
five went missing (the enclosed
folder instructs
that half the tampons -
5 - are with
applicators, and five
have none).
The ARROWS
line up the outer
tubes and show how
different the tampon
lengths are - sloppy manufacturing
just
as with TamPak, a
Turkish knock-off of
Tampax.
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Below
& above: The black stuff on
the cellophane looks like
the
deteriorating
adhesive from the
(plastic?) bands around the
smaller tampons below.
Below:
Look how the smaller ones also vary in length.
See these
tampons in detail on page 4.
The middle
tampon measures about 1
5/8 x 5/8" (about 3.7 x 1.8 cm), the widths
varying also.
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